Stories from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston)
September 17, 2023
The Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program at Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston topped all other undergraduate nursing programs in Texas, according to the 2024 U.S. News Best Colleges publication, which was released today.
September 14, 2023
R.Á.P.I.D.O., a culturally relevant acronym created under the leadership of Jennifer Beauchamp, PhD, RN, at Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston to raise awareness of stroke signs in the Spanish-speaking Hispanic/Latino community and save lives, has been adopted by the American Stroke Association (ASA), the organization announced today.
September 7, 2023
Dr. Kristina Whitworth and Dr. Elaine Symanski at Baylor College of Medicine and Dr. Thomas F. Northrup at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston received funding from the National Institutes of Health as part of the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program to recruit a cohort of pregnant people in Houston with the ultimate goal of following their children through age 21 years.
September 5, 2023
A 2021 study revealed that just three National Basketball Association team orthopedic surgeons were women. By the spring of 2022, UTHealth Houston's Bonnie Gregory, MD, had joined them.
August 28, 2023
A new neurohospitalist fellowship program at McGovern Medical School is just the 7th in the country as of 2023 and has brought 2 talented physicians to UTHealth Houston. In this relatively new field, physicians treat hospitalized patients with neurological disorders.
August 28, 2023
Moving to Watson, Oklahoma from China at the age of 8, Eric Wang, 20, struggled because there were no English-as-a-second-language courses available to him. Instead, he learned English from friends and classmates.
August 28, 2023
Xiaoqian Jiang, PhD, will chair the Department of Health Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and Muhammad Walji, PhD, will chair the Department of Clinical and Health Informatics. Both begin their respective roles Sept. 1.
August 25, 2023
Seeing his 90-year-old grandparents, who were always fiercely independent, struggle with mobility issues led Carson Benner to want to focus on ways to improve mobility in older persons.
August 25, 2023
Growing up in Amherst, a town of approximately 700 residents in the Texas panhandle, Jennifer Mendoza, 22, originally wanted to study veterinary medicine. But a need for minority doctors who could connect with the Hispanic population in her area made her reevaluate her career path.
August 25, 2023
It was a high school debate coach who challenged Jonathan “Jack” Monday to be open-minded and got him thinking about whether linguistics serves as the building blocks for what we believe.
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